Jesse Nathan's poems have appeared in jubilat, the American Poetry Review, Boston Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He's co-founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series and is nearly finished with a PhD in Poetry & Poetics from Stanford. Nathan lives in San Francisco.

Alissa Valles is the author of the poetry books Orphan Fire (2008) and Anastylosis (Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2014), and the editor and co-translator of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems (2007; NY Times Notable Book) and Collected Prose (2010). Our Life Grows: Poems of Ryszard Krynicki, edited and translated by Valles, is forthcoming from NYRB Poets in November 2017. Her writing has recently appeared in Bomb,BRICK, PEN America and elsewhere. She is on the Editorial Board of the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.

Dominic Luxford’s scholarship, journalism and reviews have appeared in The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Economist, the Believer, and McSweeney’s. Luxford edited The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, is the founding poetry editor of the Believermagazine, and is a co-founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in San Francisco.

Amid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds, Mary Cisper, poet and sometime visual artist, lives with her husband in northern New Mexico. Her first poetry collection, Dark Tussock Moth, won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press, 2017). A former chemist, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers in search of ultra-low detection limits. Her poems and reviews have been published in various journals including Denver Quarterly, ZYZZYVA, Lana Turner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Terrain, Water-Stone Review, Newfound, FIELD, and Omniverse. She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder. Of all the places she’s lived, she misses the Bay Area the most.

Jane Lin is a poet and software engineer for an environmental consulting company in Northern New Mexico. Her debut poetry collection Day of Clean Brightness was published by 3: A Taos Press this year. She received her BA and BS from Stanford University where she studied under Denise Levertov, and her MFA from New York University where she was a New York Times fellow. Her poem “Signs and Portents” was transformed into an art song by Emmy Award winning composer Glen Roven for his composition “The Santa Fe Songs” for soprano and piano and appears on Talise Trevigne's album At the Statue of Venus. Other poems have appeared in Cura, Five Points, jmww, New Madrid, Slant, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Collagist, The Harwood Poetry Anthology, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Taos Summer Writers' Conference. For many years she taught creative writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitated the Mesa Public Library Poetry Gathering series.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, CA. Her second poetry collection, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air, is about the untold history of Sonoma County, CA, and was published in November 2015 by Word Tech Editions. Her third collection, Interrupted Geographies, will be published by Trio House Press in 2017. Her debut poetry collection, Gold Passage, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence, Calyx, Catamaran, Poet’s Market 2013, JMWW. and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. She received her B.A. from the George Washington University, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

Angel Dominguez is a Latinx Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast. His work can be found in The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Bombay Gin, and online at Open House Poetry and spiralorb.com, with work forthcoming in FENCE. He was the co-founding editor of Tract/Trace: an investigative journal, and presently curates the ongoing series: Bodies/Pages. Along with Hannah Kezema, he co-founded the performance art collaborative: Dream Tigers. Black Lavender Milk is his first book.

David Koehn's first full length manuscript, Twine, now available from Bauhan Publishing, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David's poetry and translations were previously collected in two chapbooks, Tunic, (speCt! books 2013) a small collection of some translations of Catullus, and Coil (University of Alaska, 1998), winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. Omnidawn just released Compendium, a collection of Donald Justice's take on prosody. David's second full-length collection, Scatterplot, is due out from Omnidawn in 2020. David's writing has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Diagram, McSweeney's, The Greensboro Review, and many others.

Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT, jubilat, The Volta, and The Offending Adam, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book, occident, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!, a chapbook series and book arts imprint, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.

최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley, where they study literature and philosophy, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn's 2016 chapbook contest, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal, The Felt, Omniverse, and Apogee's print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.

Lorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review, Fourteen Hills, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland, Ca.

Jessica Moll works as a project editor at University of California Press. Her first chapbook, It’s Not That Deep, will be published in spring 2017 by Steep Sea Press, based in Nuremberg. She writes prose and poetry, some of which has appeared in journals including Rattle, Sparkle & Blink, and VOLT. She lives with her partner in Oakland and can be found swimming in the shallows of the San Francisco Bay.

Shira Richman's poems have been published in journals such as Copper Nickel, The Pinch, Bayou, Crab Creek Review, Third Coast and Keyhole, and in her chapbooks Test Tube with a View (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Eden Was Here (dancing girl press, 2014). She designs books for Racing Form Press and Burnside Review Press. She currently lives in Germany and teaches English at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen.

Caroline Knapp is the author of Facture (2013),The Hunters Enter the Wood (forthcoming, 2017), and Tanzsprachen (forthcoming, 2017), all chapbooks in the Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Her poems have appeared in Jubilat, CutBank, Verse Daily, KelseySt.com, and Opon. She lives in Oakland.

Deb Hayden is a photographer, altered book artist and writer. The four pieces in this exhibit were entered in the Museum of Contemporary Art Altered Book Exhibit in Novato. Her book Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis (Basic Books, 2003) investigated syphilis in the lives of well-known historical figures.